...well,
if not perfect, at least experienced. Listed below are some files on the
site that you can use in your Director experimentation. Since they're
online, they're useful for testing out web-savvy links, online external
cast members and Lingo scripts. They're on the root level of this server,
so the exact URL of each is this domain plus their name (i.e., www.demystified.com/text1.txt).

AUTODONE.DIR
is the completed version of the exercise in Chapter 12, which is also
used for downloading in Chapter 22.

pic1.gif
is a simple GIF image, used as a guinea pig for the online file-access
exercise in Chapter 22.

countwords.txt
is a simple yet useful file that doesn't pop up in the book, but can
come in handy in your day-to-day scripting. It's nothing but a text
file of the numbers 1 through 100, each written as a single word (i.e.,
86 is "eightysix"). What's that good for? Well, if you've got a script
that grabs or monitors a specific location in a text string, you can
point it at this file to make sure it's looking in the right spot. If
a line like put word 8 of myVar turns up with "nine" when myVar contains
the countwords text, you've started to pinpoint the problem.

Drum3
is an online version of the "Drum Polyrhythm 3" sound file on the Demystified
CD-ROM. It's sampled in 8 bit mono, 22.357 kHz sound, runs 22 seconds
playback length, and weighs in with a file size of 500K.

tahoe.jpg
is a larger graphic (111K) in JPEG format (thanks to my sister Moana
for the digital photo). This is a good one for experimenting with downloading
in the background. For instance, try writing a script that doesn't display
the image until it's fully downloaded--make sure your script periodically
updates the status of the download.